STAND. COM. REP. NO. 69

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 212
                                     




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B.
No. 212 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE
     OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to reduce the number of serious motor vehicle injuries involving
minor passengers.

     Your Committee finds that the numbers of accidents in which
minor passengers are injured or killed, while riding with
intoxicated drivers, are increasing.  Your Committee further
finds that stronger penalties are needed to deter persons from
endangering minor passengers by driving while intoxicated.

     This bill proposes to impose a mandatory minimum consecutive
jail sentence of forty-eight hours and not more than thirty days,
and a mandatory fine of $500, upon any driver convicted of a
driving under the influence (DUI) offense with a passenger less
than eighteen years of age.

     Testimonies in support of this bill were received from the
Department of Transportation, the Police Department of the City
and County of Honolulu, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and Keiki
Injury Prevention Coalition.  The Public Defender did not take a
position on the bill, but offered comments.


 
 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.
212 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to
the Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation,



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair